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chaperon

NOUN
person who accompanies for supervision
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Should it materialize, the takeover would be the latest disturbance at the Torrance shopping center, which recently instituted a chaperon policy after several large youth melees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

The three girls aged 13, 10, and 9 arrived early in the morning Thursday, were detained and barred entry into the country along with their cousin chaperon who immigration authorities deemed “inadmissible.”

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2019

At the outset, the company plans on offering fully autonomous rides, with a Waymo employee in the car only as a chaperon.

From The Verge ● Aug. 21, 2018

Twenty years later, I was in the City of Retail — rather, romance — again, as a chaperon for my teenage daughter’s advanced placement European history class.

From Washington Post ● May 25, 2017

Mr. Tamba told her that he was the CAW chaperon going on the trip with us and that he would make sure that we returned to Sierra Leone at the end of the conference.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah


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